World Association of News Publishers


Conference Programme

Conference Programme

Day 1: Tuesday, 29-January, 2013

Time: 9:30 hrs - 17:30 hrs

Session: Digital Media Landscape

 

Trend scouting – How the publishers are adopting to digital platforms? Key points to follow when embracing digital – A world wide view

Stig Nordqvist, WAN-IFRA Frenemies Consulting

 

The journalism of tomorrow. Is digital media enhancing journalism

Kunda Dixit, Editor, Nepali Times, Nepal 

 

Millions of unique visitors and hundreds of million page views per month. But what is the average revenue per user? Does it pay for its cost? How can we know more about our user and leverage it to increase our bottom lines?

Puneet Gupt, Business Head – The Times of India digital

 

Session: The road to “Digital” El Dorado 

 

A case study from ePresse on their success in paid digital circulation. ePresse is a concerted effort by French publishers to produce their own viable alternative to Apple and Amazon, with a standalone cross-platform sales channel for newspapers and magazines.

Philippe Jannet, Head, ePresse, France

                                   

Driving  subscriptions at online only news portal – A case study from Malaysiakini.com

Premesh Chandran, CEO & Founder, Malaysiakini.com

 

Mobile success: A case study from Singapore Press Holdings, one of the largest South East Asian news publisher

Johnson Goh, Head & VP, SPH Online Classifieds, Singapore 

 

Session:  Tablet Publishing

 

Tablet Publishing 2.0. With more devices in the market and cost of entry becoming lower, will the useage of tablets follow the growth pattern of mobile phones? Where will news publishers stand in this scenario?

Monalisa Sengupta, Head- Apps Division, NDTV, India 

 

Building user experiences for your digital products – Lessons for news publishers

Grig Davidowitz, CEO, RGB Media, Israel


News publishing on tablets - possibilities, opportunities

Presentation by leading app developers - Adobe, Mediology and Mobstac

 

Session: Digital Revenue Models

 

Digital Advertising – A case study from an agency

Anurag Bhatnagar, Head, Havas Media South Asia, India 

 

Video – the most sought after content in the digital space.

Anuj Bhasin, Director - Sales, iStream

 

Panel discussion: If print is 85% of our revenue, how serious is selling digital?

End of the conference.